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Dan Hawes grew up on an arable farm in Suffolk and now produces strawberry and raspberry plants for the UK fruit market with Blaise Plants, sister company to Hugh Lowe Farms, Kent. The business grows outside, under tunnels and in glasshouses and produces more than four million plants a year. The arable side includes environmental schemes, with a mix of wheat, oilseed rape, beans and barley crops.

With unsettled weather continuing to fuel high disease pressure, growers are being urged to ensure emerging wheat ears are fully protected through to harvest

With a challenging start to the year, Ash Ellwood chats to a crop production specialist about the potential disease season ahead and what growers can do to prepare for T3 fungicide applications

Agronomists say T3 will be essential in controlling rusts and septoria

With grain prices rising again after easing last week, Cedric Porter takes a look at the factors affecting the markets.

Dan Hawes grew up on an arable farm in Suffolk and now produces strawberry and raspberry plants for the UK fruit market with Blaise Plants, sister company to Hugh Lowe Farms, Kent. The business grows outside, under tunnels and in glasshouses and produces more than four million plants a year. The arable side includes environmental schemes, with a mix of wheat, oilseed rape, beans and barley crops

Company says more tests will be carried out post-harvest 2024

The continued wet weather could impact UK imports of wheat from Germany

Russia once again in driving seat as market dominance looks aet to continue